The red flag warning in effect for Long Island, New York City and the lower Hudson Valley has been extended until 6 p.m.

All the supplies are now filling up the Long Island fire station and will be loaded into a couple of trucks that volunteers ...

Firefighters managed to contain a fire that engulfed a gas tanker truck Sunday that had just made a stop at a Riverhead gas station, authorities said. Riverhead police responded to the report of ...

Medical students gain real-world training in disaster response, teaming up with homeland security and first responders ...

WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- A manhunt for the driver who shot a New York State Police trooper on Long Island continues Friday ... the driver suddenly opened fire through the window, then drove ...

Dozens of firefighters Wednesday continued to battle a massive wildfire in central Connecticut that killed a fireman and injured three others Tuesday, fire and ... Service in Long Island, which ...

The company came to be through the help of Henry W. Meyer, a wealthy Glendale resident who manufactured Ivanhoe brand chewing ...

A long-awaited effort to repair Superstorm Sandy tunnel damage will result in fewer LIRR trains serving Penn Station, the railroad’s president said Monday. But the restrooms on those trains may ...

Fire Island's sunken forest is a rare ... In 1819, the accomplished American poet was born one of nine children on Long Island in Huntingdon Station, New York. Whitman's birthplace remains today ...

killed in house fire in Newark, New Jersey Upon arrival, detectives found a 6-year-old girl and 8-year-old girl lying on the ground with their bodies severely burned. Long Island math teacher ...

A new fire station in central Germany ... candles and gaudily wrapped gift sets - were being noticed in stores long before the final Halloween decor had been cleared. Thousands of people are ...